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Mr. Marioni is a conceptual artist who has turned half of his studio into a piano bar. Photo: Sonja Och/The Chronicle

From the local scene:

Meet Tom Marioni, a conceptual artist who holds a weekly beer salon in San Francisco. It started at a 1970 event at the Oakland Museum called “The Act of Drinking Beer With Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.” He’s been doing the private salon event on a weekly basis since 1973; he’s done it around the world. [San Francisco Chronicle]

Sam Sifton is in Los Angeles, writing about Kogi’s Roy Choi, and he’s got the great lede to prove it: “Roy Choi is the dharma bum of the Los Angeles food scene, a Zen lunatic bard of the city’s immigrant streets … Choi cooks poems, and they taste of Los Angeles.” [New York Times]

On Wylie Dufresne‘s new tasting menu at WD-50: “The new tasting is an epic, culinary love story set in New York City. And it is a must-eat, packed with edible tricks and technique-bolstered extras you might expect from the science-loving chef who brought us squirt-your-own noodles and deep-fried hollandaise. It is also delicious, fun as hell, and well worth the fatso price tag.” [Village Voice]